Inmeriz García Hernández
I lost my right hand and some of the bone in my left foot to a landmine. I was picking coffee in El Paraíso, Honduras to make some extra money when I stepped on the landmine. When I woke up I was in the hospital.

 

Micro-Grant Awarded!

Ramón Peralta Aguierre
I lost both of my legs when I stepped on a landmine in Nueva Segovia, in Northern Nicaragua. I was 25 years old at the time of my accident.

 

Micro-Grant Awarded!

Francisco Ramírez Pérez
I was walking on my coffee farm, cutting down trees to clear more land for planting when my machete hit the mine. They had to amputate my right hand.

 

Micro-Grant Awarded!

Walter Marenco
I stepped on a landmine when I was walking along the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. They had to amputate my right leg. I was crossing the border while helping a friend on his coffee farm.

 

Micro-Grant Awarded!

Santos Plutarco
I stepped on a landmine and lost my left leg while harvesting coffee in El Paraiso, Honduras. I was working as a coffee picker to make some extra money.

 

Micro-Grant Awarded!

Jose Guadalupe Ponce Ponce
I stepped on a landmine and lost my right leg when I was 9 years old. I was with my father picking coffee in our community of El Paraiso, Honduras.

 

$370 needed.

Eduardo Espinal
When I was 13 I was playing with my younger brother and cousin in San Rafael, Honduras when I stepped on a mine. I was the only survivor. I lost both of my legs.

 

$1000 needed.

Boanerges Blandon Corcomo
I would like to continue to grow coffee, and need to make improvements to my farm.

 

$2150 needed.

Cesar Nortiel Maradiaga
I knew that there were landmines in the area.

 

$1500 needed.

Félix Gonzáles Moreno
I lost my leg, and my vision to a landmine.

 

$1480 needed.

Horacio Acuña Herrera
I was in the woods behind my house collecting firewood when I stepped on a landmine.

 

$1710 needed.

Juan Domingo Jiménez Rivera
I was injured and disabled by a landmine in the coffee region around Jinotega, Nicaragua.

 

Micro-Grant Awarded!

María Elsa Chaverria
I was injured when the bus I was riding in hit an anti-tank mine.

 

$1450 needed.

Miguel Angel Alaniz
I was injured during the war, and still have pieces of a landmine in my chest and back.

 

$1285 needed.

Pedro Jerónimo Duarte Amador
I lost my leg, and the foot from my other leg when I fell on a landmine during the war.

 

$1620 needed.

Rafael Blandón Mairena
I work as a day laborer on a coffee plantation, but I have trouble working because of injuries from a landmine.

 

$1675 needed.

Socorro del Carmen Varela
I was taking a bus to visit my sister when it ran over an anti-tank mine.

 

$1500 needed.

Lorenzo Alfredo Flores Ferrufino
I was walking to pick coffee when a mine exploded and injured my leg.

 

$1000 needed.

Elsa Marina Cálix
I was working with my parents, picking coffee, when I stepped on a landmine.

 

$700 needed.

German Andino López
I was walking home when I stepped on a landmine. It was a path I had walked many times before.

 

$900 needed.

Juan Gonzalo Rayo
I was injured on my way to work, and lost half of my lower leg.

 

$700 needed.

Pedro Pablo Ramírez Marín
I lost my leg to a landmine on April 13, 1993 while picking coffee during the harvest season.

 

$950 needed.

Silvio Aguilar
I stepped on a landmine on my farm. At first, I didn't realize what had happened.

 

$800 needed.

Víctor Manuel Ferrufino
I was in the fields, herding cows, when I stepped on a landmine.

 

$800 needed.



We've created this website to be a place where people who work in the coffee industry and coffee consumers can make a connection with the coffee farmers, workers and their families who deal with landmines on a daily basis.

 

Look through the profiles here and direct your money to be part of a Micro-Grant to someone trying to work, create a business or improve an existing one, or send someone in their family to school. Micro-Grants do not have to be repaid. They are one way the Trust can provide resources for people to help themselves.

 

Micro-Grants are handled via PayPal through the Polus Center for Social and Economic Development.

 

The Coffeelands Landmine Victims’ Trust works in partnership with the Polus Center, a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to supporting people with disabilities since 1979.

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